Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1899 — ANTI-IMPERIALIST MEETING. [ARTICLE]

ANTI-IMPERIALIST MEETING.

ers were:, Henry Wade Rogers, president of Northwestern University; Bishop J. L. Spaulding of the Catholic diocese of .Peoria. Prof. J. Laurence Laughlin of-the University of Chicago, the Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Edwin Bnrritt Smith, Jane Adtiams and gigmnnd Zeisler. The protests from people in the audience began in a spontaneous burst. Soon the words “traitor” and “treason” were heard above the din. They were yelled afthe speaker. The interrnptions caused a great commotion. Finally Chairman. Rogers appealed to; the loyalists to desist* In the meantime three or four of those who Were loudest in their disapproval of criticism %r the President were led to the do<Jr and asked to leave. '• " 't Resolutions denouncing the policy of imperialism as hostile to liberty and tending to militarism, an evil from which it has been our glory to be free* were adopted. They condemned the policy of- the administration Tn the Philippine affair and deepiored and resented the “needless loss of life.” They protested against extension . of American empire by “Spanish methods” and demanded immediate cessation of war.